China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. – Li Peng
It sounds pretentious to say I ‘divide’ my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing. – Karin Slaughter
The devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. – The Bible Matthew 4:8
Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That’s why I don’t go climb mountains. – Jeff Garlin
I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains. – Joseph Bruchac
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. – Muhammad Ali
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what’s going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources. – James Rollins
I’m a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it. – Jerry Jeff Walker
I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet. – Jane Badler
Franschhoek – French Corner – is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green. – Justin Cartwright
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. – John Moody
Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates. – Li Keqiang
I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that’s a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems. – Laurent Lamothe
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don’t know what happens up there in the mountains when you’re growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time – 50 years I’d say. – Queen Latifah
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. – Richard H. Davis
I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world. – Raha Moharrak
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. – Saadi
Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. – The Bible Song of Solomon 2:8
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us. – Ruth St. Denis
Mountains aren’t eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat. – Seth Shostak
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened. – Patrick Murphy
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money. – Robert Adams
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. – Roy Barnes
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. – Sebastian Thrun
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. – Shaun White
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life. – Pamela Sue Martin
I’ve been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I’m in the mountains – my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I’m in, I’m in. – Robert Redford